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Kurdish Americans

Kurds in the United States refers to people born in or residing in the United States of Kurdish origin or those considered to be ethnic Kurds.

The majority of Kurdish Americans are recent migrants from Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. Most have roots in northern Iraq or northwestern Iran.[3] The Iraqi Kurdish people comprise the largest proportion of ethnic Kurds living in the US.


The first wave of Kurdish immigrants arrived as refugees during the 1970s as a result of the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict. A second wave of Kurdish immigrants arrived in the 1990s fleeing Saddam Hussein's genocidal Anfal Campaign in northern Iraq. The most recent wave of Kurdish immigrants arrived as a result of the 2011 Syrian Civil War and the 2014 Iraqi Civil War, including a number who worked as translators for the U.S. military.[4]


In recent years, the Internet has played a large role in mobilizing the Kurdish movement, uniting diasporic communities of Kurds around the Middle East, South East Asia, European Union, Canada, the US, and Australia.[5]

Founding CEO of Udemy and cofounder of Carbon Health

Eren Bali

Businessman and entrepreneur, founder of Chobani

Hamdi Ulukaya

US Diplomat

Herro Mustafa

Politician and Neurosurgeon

Najmiddin Karim

Filmmaker

Jano Rosebiani

Philanthropist and restaurateur. Owner and founder of the pizzeria chain Champion Pizza and Hakki's in New York City

Hakki Akdeniz

Archaeologist, translator and writer

Saad Abbas Ismail

Businessman, manager and President of Shots Podcast Network, Nelk Boys and Happy Dad Hard Seltzer

John Shahidi

Co-founder of Shots Podcast Network and CEO of Happy Dad Hard Seltzer

Sam Shahidi

Islamic philosopher and intellectual, considered one of the prime figures in the modern Islamic reform and Quranism movements

Edip Yüksel

Businessman, associated with the International Institute of Islamic Thought, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, and the SAAR Foundation

Jamal al Barzinji

Activist

Hanna Jaff

A Professor of Kurdish and Middle Eastern Studies at University of Central Florida.

Haidar Khezri

Director of Transplantation Services and Advanced Surgery Center, in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Gazi Zibari

Turkish Americans

Iranian Americans

Iraqi Americans

Syrian Americans

Mandaean Americans

Dundas, Chad (2014). "Kurdish Americans". In Riggs, Thomas (ed.). . Vol. 3 (3rd ed.). Gale. pp. 41–52.

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America

Meho, Lokman I., ed. The Kurdish Question in U.S. Foreign Policy: A Documentary Sourcebook (Praeger, 2004).

O'Connor, Karen. A Kurdish Family: Journey Between Two Worlds (Lerner Publishing Group, 1996).

Sheyholislami, Jaffer; Sharifi, Amir (January 1, 2016). . International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 2016 (237): 75–98. doi:10.1515/ijsl-2015-0036. ISSN 1613-3668. S2CID 151708039.

""It is the hardest to keep": Kurdish as a heritage language in the United States"